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Woot! Just took my BP- it's down from 144/83 in January to 119/74. Happy dance! It hasn't been this low for years!
Cool! I haven't looked into that much but it does look like fun. Yeah, I am kind of irritated - I had a great, solid week otherwise, and ran Tu, We, and today, not to mention the 12 I did on Sunday - but just one day of having a chicken salad club sandwich for lunch and a heavier (but not talking gorging over the top here) dinner with wine and dessert, and I am up 4 pounds today. WTF? This is why my head gets all twisted around doing maintenance and not consciously working on losing. I feel like I drop my guard for one day and it's blown. It took me weeks to get to that goal number, half to a pound at a time, and now I'm back where I was about a month or more ago. Just like that.
SALT.
I was watching an HBO documentary about diet and a Dr who researches obesity was explaining that a person who had lost weight and was now a healthy weight would need 20% less calories to maintain that weight than someone who had been that same low weight their whole adult lives. And the effect never seems to disappear.Awesome.
I've read similar things... I do think it has to do with losing muscle mass, tho. Did they talk about why the thought this was?
Yes, I think there are a number of studies supporting this. The diet I follow includes a table that shows you what your "maintain" calorie level is for your age/height/activity level/weight. I think for me the calorie difference is about 250/day.
But he explained that it is aside from all those factors. You can have two folks with the same stats for every one of those factors and the person who lost 50 pounds 5 years ago will have a much lower caloric need for some metabolic reason.
Right... that's what I'm saying. There is one table for people who've never lost weight and a different for those who have. It's sad.